Hamilton Field Officers Mess
Project type: Military and Public Safety
New Deal Agencies: Public Works Administration (PWA)
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Description
‘The officers mess… has a setting of live-oak trees and California foliage. Like most of the buildings at Hamilton Field it has concrete foundations and hollow-tile walls above grade covered with stucco. Its roofs are covered wiht mission tile. The lounge has two huge fireplaces, rough-plaster walls, and a wood ceiling supported on wood trusses.’ (PWA: $60,000)
P.W.A. Federal Project No. 496
Source notes
Short, C. W. and R. Stanley-Brown (1939) Public Buildings: Architecture Under the Public Works Administration, 1933 to 1939. United States Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.
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